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Facts, Values, and Norms

Essays Toward a Morality of Consequence

  • Paperback
  • 410 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm

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For students and professionals in philosophy and ethics

Clarifies complex concepts of morality and values

You will gain deeper insights into moral reasoning

This collection of essays explores the relationship between facts, values, and morality.

In our everyday lives we struggle with the notions of why we do what we do and the need to assign values to our actions. Somehow, it seems possible through experience and life to gain knowledge and understanding of such matters. Yet once we start delving deeper into the concepts that underwrite these domains of thought and actions, we face a philosophical disappointment. In contrast to the world of facts, values and morality seem insecure, uncomfortably situated, easily influenced by illusion or ideology. How can we apply this same objectivity and accuracy to the spheres of value and morality? In the essays included in this collection, Peter Railton shows how a fairly sober, naturalistically informed view of the world might nonetheless incorporate objective values and moral knowledge. This book will be of interest to professionals and students working in philosophy and ethics.
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  • Title

    Facts, Values, and Norms

  • Author

    Peter Railton

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    March 2003

  • Weight

    541g

  • Page Count

    410

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521426930

  • ISBN-10

    0521426936

  • Eden Code

    4575074

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